The market if a fucking idiot, is my point. Out of all the good, free fic out there they choose to indulge the one dude who decides to charge them? That's why I'm saying they're wasting money.
I never said one type of artist shouldn't charge money and the other can. But most fanartists don't charge people to see their personal fanart pieces; they charge for commissions or prints of a piece they posted on the internet for free-- as such, the customer gets a product tailored to their tastes, or a physical copy that they can display somewhere. The artist equivalent of what this specific author is doing is if an artist charged people just for looking at their fanart blog, while a thousand other artists aren't charging for it.
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That's why I'm saying they're wasting money.
I never said one type of artist shouldn't charge money and the other can. But most fanartists don't charge people to see their personal fanart pieces; they charge for commissions or prints of a piece they posted on the internet for free-- as such, the customer gets a product tailored to their tastes, or a physical copy that they can display somewhere. The artist equivalent of what this specific author is doing is if an artist charged people just for looking at their fanart blog, while a thousand other artists aren't charging for it.